Silsurf B-208 - Siltech - PEG-8 Dimethicone

Knowde Enhanced TDS

Identification & Functionality

Chemical Family: Silicones
INCI Name: PEG-8 Dimethicone
Ingredient Origin: Synthetic
Cosmetic Ingredients Functions: Wetting Agent
Technologies: Cosmetic Ingredients
Product Families: Cosmetic Ingredients — Functionals
Emulsifiers, Solubilizers & Dispersants

Features & Benefits

Benefit Claims: Good Wetting Properties
Labeling Claims: Ulta Beauty's Conscious Beauty
Product Features: Silsurf® B208 is used to enhance wetting in various personal care and industrial formulations and provides some improvement in emulsion stability. Silsurf B208 provides softness and shine to hair and detangling for wet hair. In these uses, it also provides hydrophilicity and improved heat stability. Silsurf B208 is used as a surface wetting agent or surface tension reducing agent in aqueous solution. The material is surface active, lowering the surface tension of a solution to the low 20 mN/m range. Interfacial tensions are also lowered. Wetting and flow and leveling of the solution are improved.

Silsurf B208 is compatible in solvent-borne and UV cured coating systems, and with most of the resins used in the coatings industry including acrylic, alkyd, polyurethane, polyester and epoxy resins. In these systems, Silsurf B208 provides wetting, flow and leveling, penetration, slip, release, and soft feel as well as mar, stain and abrasion resistance.

Silsurf B208 is effective at very low levels and shows excellent compatibilities in most solvents. It is recommended that it be used between 0.1-5.0 wt% percent based on the total formulation. It can typically be added at any stage during the production process.

Applications & Uses

Markets: Personal Care
Applications: Personal Care — Beauty & Care
Baby Care,
Bath & Shower,
Color Cosmetics,
Hair Care,
Skin Care,
Sun Care,
Treatment Products
Application Format: Creams,
Leave On,
Lotions,
Ointments,
Rinse Off,
Roll On,
Serum,
Spray,
Stick
Baby Care Applications: Baby Sunscreen
Bath & Shower Applications: Body Wash
Color Cosmetic Applications: BB Creams,
Eye Liner
Fragrances & Perfume Applications: Fragrances & Perfumes
Hair Care Applications: Shampoos & Rinses
Skin Care Applications: Anti-Aging Products,
Facial Cleanser,
Facial Moisturizer
Sun Care Applications: After Sun Products,
Baby Sunscreen
Recommended Uses: Some possible industrial uses for Silsurf B208: ·

Leather finishing: wetting, softness. ·

Textile: low foaming wetting, slip, lubrication, penetration aid. ·

Automotive & household products: wetting, shine, slip, anti-squeak, lubrication, foam control, penetrant.

Coatings: flow & leveling agent with good slip, low to non-foaming, compatibilizer

Some possible personal care uses for Silsurf® B208:

Conditioning for skin or hair

Shine/gloss enhancement

Properties

Regulatory & Compliance

Packaging & Availability

Packaging Information: Silsurf®B208 is supplied in 20kg pails and 200kg drums.

Storage & Handling

Storage and Handling: When stored in the original, unopened containers between 10 and 400 C, Silsurf®B208 has a shelf life of 36 months from date of manufacture.